Someone buy this and take me for a ride

80 grand for a prop? What is this made of, space age diamonds?
 
Remember watching T28s at Keesler AFB, around 1968, they were training S.Vietnam Air Force pilots to fly it there. Rumor (joke I'm sure) was they were putting them in the Biloxi back bay more than the runway.
 
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Buying the plane isn't the expensive part, footing the fuel, oil, and annual cost would be the killer. Something like 40 gallons/hour of gas, probably a quart an hour of oil not to count what leaks out on the hangar floor.
 
Never flown an A model, but understand they are underpowered with only 800hp. I flew a B model a few times which has 1425hp. It was a hoot to fly!
 
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That's a lot of clammage for a propeller.
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It isn't just the prop. If you read the full description, it apparently had a prop strike and the engine needs a teardown inspection. Plus it isn't a super common engine. Could end up being very expensive.
 
I too have time in a B model. I had older low-time private pilot buy one when I owned an FBO. He hangared it in our big hangar.

I did a several day review of the flight manuals & did several high speed taxi runs before we flew it. It had a ton of power & fantastic climb performance. It was very docile to fly.

I cherish the picture hanging in my office at the house with he & I flying over the Cascade mountains.
 
N3368K said:
Never flown an A model, but understand they are underpowered with only 800hp. I flew a B model a few times which has 1425hp. It was a hoot to fly!
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I have flown both and in a lot of ways I like the A model more. It has plenty of power though nowhere near the climb performance as the B. It is a much lighter airplane and has really nice light controls and only burns 32gph as compared to 60-65 in the B. They are very docile airplanes with tons of room in the cockpit and great visibility. A low time pilot would have no problem trasitioning into one once you learn how to run a radial engine and how big the airplane is. Don
 
Goning to take more than a few AMU's to get this bird back in the air.
 
Not worried about the motor ,how does one afford the fuel cost?
 
I've sat in the (at the time) only flying Anderson Greenwood (not this one). I was on the taxiway doing my job looking for neat planes for our exhibit area and I told the guy this one HAS to be in the exhibit. He says he wants to camp with the plane. I told him he could camp with us in the volunteer encampment in the woods, but the plane has to go on display. Neat guy. Got him to fly it out ot Margy's Smithsonian flyin the next year as well.

Not the most comfortable plane if you've got long legs.
 
The navy version had the higher horsepower for obvious reason. The plane was used to carrier qualify. Most people who owned them when fuel was cheap and they were popular , flew the navy version.
 
The best model is the Fennec. They took the lightweight A model and put a 1525 hp 1820 on them, the B and C had 1450hp. Several were built for France.
 
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